Proverbial Wisdom
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
505.
What female heart can gold despise?
What cat’s averse to fish?
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat
506.
Dearer is love than life, and fame than gold;
But dearer than them both your faith once plighted hold.
Faerie Queene, Bk V, Can. XI, St. 63
507.
There is one road
To peace, and that is truth, which follow ye;
Love sometimes leads astray to misery.
Julian and Maddalo
508. The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb.
Henry VI, Pt II (Suffolk), Act III, Scene I
509. Hot love soon colde.
Proverbs, Bk I, Ch. II
510. One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Adzuma, or The Japanese Wife (Sakamune),
Act II, Scene V